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    Ambush at Still Lake

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    ISBN: 9781800174122
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    AuthorBird, Caroline
    Pub Date27/06/2024
    BindingPaperback
    Pages84
    Publisher: CARCARNET PRESS LTD
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    Caroline Bird's new collection charts marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery: the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness, after the happy ending.

    A Financial Times Poetry Book of the Year 2024

    Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is playing out: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in basements, baby monitors are haunted by someone else's baby and, through it all, love stays and stays like a stationary rollercoaster that turns out to be the scariest, most thrilling ride in the amusement park.

    Her editor welcomed the book in these terms: 'It is bleak, repellent and hilarious in an American Psycho-ish way. Hectic and vivid.'

    'Vegetable crisps.
    The words yawn like a black hole,
    sucking my eyes backwards
    into my head until I see
    my own brain glowing
    like a radioactive cauliflower.'